Artist in Focus: Julia Jones

9 June 2025

This week’s Artist in Focus is conductor Julia Jones who makes her return to Oper Frankfurt this Sunday with Handel's Alcina. Since her premiere with the company with Die Entführung aus dem Serail she has conducted Die Zauberflöte and Falstaff as well as new productions of L'italiana in Londra, Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro. Find out more information about the production here: https://bit.ly/3ZKbnRB
#RAArtistinFocus Julia Jones has appeared several times with the Royal Ballet And Opera where recent performances of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro were called 'exemplary' by The Stage. Listen to her discuss working on the iconic production by David McVicar here: https://bit.ly/4kRZj8E
#RAArtistsinFocus Julia Jones has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses including Berlin Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Hamburg, Salzburger Festpiele and Bayerische Staatsoper. Next season she returns to the Royal Danish Opera to conduct performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo. More information here: https://bit.ly/3FRiMaM
Having previously been Chief Conductor at Theater Basel and at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, #RAArtistinFocus Julia Jones was General Music Director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester from 2016-2021 where productions included Hänsel und Gretel, Carmen, Luisa Miller, Le nozze di Figaro and La bohème as well as a series of symphonic concerts showing her skill for combining traditional lesser known and seldom performed pieces alongside core repertoire, a signature of her programming style. Listen to the first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto with Artur Pizzaro here: https://bit.ly/4a3w0ej